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[Pg 17]

PENANG

I want to go back to Singapore

And ship along the Straits,

To a bungalow I know beside Penang;

Where cocoanut palms along the shore

Are waving, and the gates

Of Peace shut Sorrow out forevermore.

I want to go back and hear the surf

Come beating in at night,

Like the washing of eternity over the dead.

I want to see dawn fare up and day

Go down in golden light;

I want to go back to Penang! I want to go back!

I want to go back to Singapore

And up along the Straits

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To the bungalow that waits me by the tide.

Where the Tamil and Malay tell their lore

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